Unsafe abortion the headache for Ghana Health Service

Techiman (BE/R) May 19 – Aborting of the unwanted human fetus is mostly done within women through legal or illegal means which is termed safe or unsafe abortion. When done in a safe way it is termed comprehensive abortion indicating that the process has gone through the hands of a certified medical professional been permitted by law.

Abortion is the loss of pregnancy before the fetus is capable of extra-uterine life within 28 weeks in Ghana.

On the other hand, it becomes unsafe and illegal when the process of conduct goes through the hands of an uncertified person with unprofessional environment using all sort of dangerous methods to perform the act that is not permitted by law.

A percentage of women from the past and present times have lost their lives or been affected by some forms of disabilities and this has become a worry to society since it continues to loss its members through this human phenomenon.

Furthermore most women die through this canker and either leave society in pain since that member was or could be a resource to most members of society; women who die through the canker are either mothers of other children, wives of husbands and daughters of fathers across society.

Statistics on the Consequences of unsafe abortion globally indicates that 47,000 related deaths, 5 million women with disabilities and 220,000 children motherless are affected.